Reply #102: Think nothin' of it, Pookie

[Hosnon]

I can understand your frustration with men my age but it does little good to anyone to jump to a conclusion about someone. Internet discussions can be difficult because the only form of expression is written word (which I think is the main reason for flame wars...there are no disarming chuckles or facial expressions on a message board).

And I'm working on building my travel/language portfolio. Speak Portuguese and a little French and have been to Brazil and am off to Quebec tomorrow.

I guess I need to update or elaborate my profile. I went to undergrad at UGA in Athens which is a quite liberal place. I'm back in GA for the summer but do attend grad school in Mississippi. So I don't really know any older women in Mississippi like that but I know quite a few in Georgia.

And thank you for the recommendation. I got my degree in Philosophy and have always held as one of my basic principles: I know that I do not know, a la Socrates. I will check out this Maimonides individual.

I don't do much parroting of a default program. I was definitely not raised in a traditional household and my parents were proactive in letting their kids' opinions develop as independently as is possible.

My view is consistent with that expressed in Roe: it is the choice of the mother and/or father up to a certain point at which the government has an interest to protect a citizen.

Perhaps things do work better if the female has absolute control over reproduction but that seems to run parallel to the line of thinking I often hear that a family works better with the man in charge or marriage works better with one man and one woman. It just doesn't seem that the rights of an individual, say the father, can be disregarded because the system works better to exclude them.

So now that we know each other a bit better maybe we can continue the discussion...I find that if you whittle away at a disagreement long enough there is either no fundamental disagreement, just a failure to communicate, or there is an important fundamental disagreement, one which probably can't be resolved.

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